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>> the standardized tests in new york city are harder? >> this common core program is something pushing in different states. they expected to have the low performance rates. but the issue of blacks and hispanics is a big one, greg. i think that the problem with education is that families either value it or they dont. we so often talk about the value of a good education is taught at home. if the kids arent getting the parents that say study, how do they have this value, then, that it becomes impo...

York city are harder? >> this common core program is something pushing in different states. they expected to have the low performance rates. but the issue of blacks and hispanics is a big one, greg. i think that the problem with education is that families either value it or they dont. we so often talk about the value of a good education is taught at home. if the kids arent getting the parents that say study, how do they have this value, then, that it becomes important? >> what makes any educatio...

That graduated to see what they owed. i saw numbers as high@as $80,000. this is a drain on our future. that starts inequality, but cause is inequality to be -- >> its also the burden of that because you cant discharge even bankruptcy. >> exactly. >> but theres this broader question about indebtedness of the american consumer, right? which is one of the things -- one of the reasons that you have this reduced consumption and slow growth in the wake of the financial crisis, right, is that you have ...

Country when we go out as foreign service officers and the like. finding people who can speak foreign languages who are capable of even studying abroad, its more difficult if youre not acquiring foreign languages early. we know that the earlier you begin to acquire a foreign language the better youre going to be at speaking a foreign language and once youve acquired your first foreign language the second one is easier. so our schools do need to teach. but its also something shocking for me, we t...

Discussion to say there are issues affecting rural areas versus urban areas. the laws in allentown is different than whats in the middle of the state in some rural area. >> but if you have high unemployment. 50% of kids graduating high school, therefore, dont have an opportunity to advance in our society, what it does, it criminalizes community, and so -- and kids get caught up in that. so it is not simply one sector that will solve this. not simpling the justice department or the police apparat...

All children -- governments job is not for some children to get out. its to lift everybody up. >> its, where is the republican party on education? thats the question. >> opportunity and competition. not by stifling the hopes of kids in terrible neighborhoods, putting them in terrible schools. theres not a person watching right now who doesnt want his or her child to go to the best possible school. >> let me let chris -- >> neighborhoods, i dont want to be the kid left in the neighborhood. you ca...

Have to do with them is, perhaps, add more students to the classroom size and that was met with some resistance from teachers in west philadelphia saying wait a minute, i dont know too many teachers or parents out there that would want to add more students to the classroom situation to add more pressure on the student -- on a teacher, rather. so is governor romney totally in touch with the education program and how to change it? >> well, i think its -- its a tough one, kelly. look, if there were...

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inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. thats because we got -- usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is whats happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, weve known each other now through ...

california teacher charged with lewd acts against children, goes to court a half hour from now. mark berendt bound and gagged some of the children and took photos. some show cockroaches on the kids faces and mouths, really awful. others showing girls with plastic spoons held to their mouths. police believed they were filled with semen. for the first time a catholic church goes on trial in a priest sex abuse case. jury selection is happening in philadelphia. the monsignor supervised p...